https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702205 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702205#c0 Summary: RTL8111/8168B hard locking and rebooting machines when under heavy load Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.4 Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: Happy.Cerberus@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1 When this network card (should apply to all cards from this family) is under heavy load (>20MB) it causes hard lockups and/or hard machine reboots. This issue is extremely hard to localize. There are either no errors, or the machine reboots to fast. Plus the actual errors are not very informative ("eth0 link up" is one of the "fatal errors"). Upstream reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32962 Ubuntu forum reference: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10774353&postcount=18 Solution is to use the driver provided by Realtek. I spent two days hunting this problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. do some network heavy stuff 2. watch your machine crash Actual Results: Machine reboots or hard locks. Expected Results: No problems should appear. Please even if you won't fix this soon, at least disable the problematic module, so that users will have some clue where to search, because this is a really, really, really annoying problem that is extremely hard to diagnose. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.